I am now a hard-core Memrise addict. It is all over for me, but stop reading here and you could be saved from a similar fate.
Still reading? Beware, compulsive types! If you try this website—which is free, making…

The Digital Dialects website is an unexpected online pleasure full of free language games for 60 languages, from popular ones such as French and German to less widely studied ones such as Zazaki (spoken primarily in eastern Turkey) and Oromo (which…

Founded in 1856, Schoenhof’s claims to have the “largest collection of foreign books in North America.” As a student at Harvard, I used to shop at their main store in Harvard Square for my language and literature course materials. I…

Central Park draws international visitors year round, but if you really want to hear other languages, walk around here during the three non-freezing seasons: spring, summer, and fall.
Summer especially is crazy with tourists. You can hear dozens of languages.…

This project was founded by Angela Jackson, a business executive whose experiences living and working abroad highlighted for her the advantages multilingualism conferred on children overseas, in terms of both educational and professional opportunities.
Bringing together language instructors, researchers, school…

Älskling, which means “darling” in Swedish, sells baby clothes online in dozens of languages.
When I first encountered this product in an Upper West Side shop some years ago, I was fortunate enough to be given a tour by…

I know little about Little Pim, other than that it offers language-learning products for kids, that it was founded by Julia Pimsleur Levine, and that the company’s instructional DVDs span multiple language families.
Also that Ms. Levine happens…

FlashcardExchange.com claims to be the “world’s largest flashcard library.”
It was founded in 2001 by a guy named Culley Harrelson, who was studying for an exam using a giant stack of paper flashcards. Apparently he didn’t find…

The Mid-Manhattan Library, at 40th Street and Fifth Avenue, is the main language-learning repository of the New York Public Library. I used it a lot in 2009 and 2010, mostly for Pimsleur audio lessons, but also borrowed books and other resources as…